Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Disclosure 

I use AI as a tool to support some of my work. I think it is important to be transparent about when I use it, what I use it for and why.

For me, AI is mainly a support and accessibility tool. It helps me manage some of the more time-consuming or difficult parts of planning, research and organisation. It doesn't replace my research, judgement or writing.

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Why I use AI

One of the main reasons I use AI is for accessibility.

It can help me break large tasks into smaller ones, organise ideas, condense information and reduce some of the mental and administrative load involved in my work.

This means I can spend more of my time and energy on the parts of the work that need me: researching, thinking, writing, making decisions and being creative.

I also use AI for practical things such as scheduling, note-taking, proofreading and creating images.

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What I use AI for

Depending on what I am working on, I may use AI to help with:

• planning and structuring ideas;

• brainstorming;

• condensing information I have already gathered;

• improving prompts and instructions;

• spelling and grammar;

• working through research papers;

• taking and organising meeting notes;

• managing tasks and my calendar;

• generating or editing images.

Using AI to help with part of a process does not mean that AI created the finished work.

What difference does AI make?

For me, the biggest benefit of AI is accessibility.

It can reduce repetitive work, make large amounts of information easier to manage and help me get started when a task feels overwhelming.

But it also has limitations. AI can be inaccurate, biased, misunderstand context or produce information that sounds convincing when it isn't true.

That is why I treat it as a tool to help me, rather than something that makes decisions for me.

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What I don't use AI for

I do not use generative AI as a source of evidence because AI can get things wrong, misunderstand information or simply make things up. So I don't rely on something being true just because an AI tool has said it.

I apply the human-in-the-loop method, making sure the research, argument, interpretation, writing, fact-checking and final decisions are mine.

If AI has directly created part of something I publish, such as an image, I state it in the caption.

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AI-assisted and AI-generated work

I make a distinction between AI-assisted and AI-generated work.

AI-assisted means that AI helped me somewhere in the process — for example with planning, organising information, proofreading or note-taking but I created the finished work.

AI-generated means that AI directly created something that appears in the finished work, such as an image.

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This will probably change

AI tools are changing quickly, and so is my understanding of their benefits, problems and wider impact. I will keep reviewing which tools I use, why I use them and whether I am comfortable with how they fit into my work.

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The AI tools I use

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Contact

If you have any questions or concerns regarding my usage of AI please contact me at muchaduabout@gmail.com.

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Last updated: October 2026